There are some pretty nutty patterns that pop up in this time lapse of frost and ice crystals forming on Brenda Loewen's kitchen window. They almost look like the surface of a different planet or a topographical map of miserable wastelands or a microscopic look at creepy organisms. Whatever your imagination sees, it's… »3/14/15 6:02pm 3/14/15 6:02pm

After drilling down through almost half a mile in solid ice on a glacial shelf in Antarctica, scientists found something surprising. There was something alive swimming in the just over 30 feet of water: this strange, clear fish. »1/23/15 2:20pm 1/23/15 2:20pm

This is just one of a series of photos taken by Marko Korošec of Mount Javornik, part of a mountain range in eastern Slovenia. Ten days of snow, high winds, and freezing fog produced layers of rime ice over everything up the mountain, including 3-foot ice spikes. See the rest of Korošec's photos on his 500px page. »12/23/14 1:33am 12/23/14 1:33am

An analysis of the past 21 years of West Antarctica's rapidly dwindling glacier cover has revealed some troubling news: The rate of melting has tripled in the past decade alone. And it's only getting faster. »12/02/14 1:40pm 12/02/14 1:40pm

A new study indicates that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in a state of irreversible decline. Over the past 40 years, the flow of glaciers into the sea has sped up. As a result, the sheets are thinning, melting the ice faster than we thought it would. Soon, sea levels will be rising. »5/12/14 4:11pm 5/12/14 4:11pm

One of the more technically creative time lapses we've seen in a long while, Snowtime is a 2-minute "microscopic time-lapse" by Vyacheslav Ivanov that captures the mesmerizing bloom of budding ice crystals in all their hexagonal glory. »2/22/14 11:00am 2/22/14 11:00am

Sunchaser Pictures' Gavin Heffernan is back with another incandescent timelapse, this time of the city of Toronto covered in glistening ice after the arctic vortex passed through. »1/14/14 3:45pm 1/14/14 3:45pm

Winter is lovely, but it also makes us yearn for even more extreme wintry landscapes on other worlds or in the ice-studded realms of outer space. Here are some wallpapers to give your computer some seasonal flare — in space! »12/23/13 5:00pm 12/23/13 5:00pm

Analyses of global surface temperature maps have allowed researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to pinpoint the absolute coldest place on Earth – and you won't believe how freakishly frigid it gets. »12/10/13 7:20am 12/10/13 7:20am

It's difficult for geologists to witness the flow of lava on snow- and ice-covered volcanos, so researchers with the Syracuse University Lava Project decided to create their own simulation, melting 300 kg of lava and pouring it over ice to watch the effects. »6/29/13 9:00am 6/29/13 9:00am

We know the first single-celled organisms were swarming across the planet over 3.5 billion years ago. The big question is how the precursors of those cells made the jump from collections of chemicals to multicellular organisms. Two recent theories explain that it's all about ice. »5/31/13 3:02pm 5/31/13 3:02pm

The Nathaniel B. Palmer is an icebreaker operated by the US National Science Foundation. Cassandra Brooks, one of the 37 scientists the ship can accomodate for missions of up to 75 days and deep in the Antarctic winter, shot this timelapse video of the ship doing its stuff over a two month period while traveling… »5/05/13 12:32pm 5/05/13 12:32pm